
by Kuro Vonarch
Rubin Rose can strip a weapon down to its last screw and put it back together blind, but people have never worked that way. When a chance encounter with a dust thief gets him skipped two years ahead into Beacon Academy, made leader of a team, and handed three teammates with conflicting motives, he has no idea where to even start. Between an heiress, a quiet girl, and his older sister, Rubin can read a weapon's intent from across a room, but reading a person is another matter entirely. The story of a boy who wants to be a hero learning that the hardest fight isn't the one with a scythe in his hands.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 16:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 16:58 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
5%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama + Action + Fantasy (2%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#1988 of 12,363 · 1938 below RS #50
By genre
beats 25% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 79% of similar stories
Readers arrive, few stick
Traffic is strong, but conversion trails comparable stories. The usual suspects are the blurb, the cover and the opening chapters — fixing the hook multiplies everything the existing traffic brings.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.